BIRDS OF DUMFRIESSHIRE 
These were sufficient, however, to prove its identity. • • • 
In A Catalogue of the Birds contained in the Collection of 
Sir William Jardine this specimen is entered as "(No. 
1459), e. (Wings and feathers) Tinwald. Found dead by 
Mr. Yorstoun's Gamekeeper." 
A RoUer was shot near Auchenbrac (Tynron) on June 
23rd 1910 It had been seen there for three or four days 
previously frequenting certain taU trees bordering Shinnel 
Water. It proved, on dissection, to be a female but not in 
breeding condition, and the stomach contained the remams 
of flies, and beetles' wings. 
This species, of which there are some twenty to twenty-tive 
records from the mainland of Scotland, is a common summer- 
migrant to the countries bordering the Mediterranean, and to 
central Europe, being found as far north as Sweden. It 
winters in Africa as far south as Natal and Cape Colony. 
THE HOOPOE. Upupa epops, Linnaeus. 
A rare casual visitor. 
Our first local record of the Hoopoe is as follows : one " . . . 
was lately [October, 1861] shot in the neighbourhood of 
Ecclef echan, and has passed through the hands of Mr Pet^r 
Muir the well-known taxidermist of Ecclefechan. T 
Sir William Jardine in a MS. note in his private copy 
of the Naturalist's Library records, "William Hastings, 
Dumfries, had a specimen of the hoopoe shot near 
Rammerscales (Lochmaben), 5th June, 1869. Un 
February 7th, 1871, Wilham Hastings exhibited the 
skin of a Hoopoe, shot m the district, to the members of 
the Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural History and 
Antiquarian Society,t which it is believed had been recently 
obtained near Trailflai (Tinwald). 
* Trans. D. and Q. Nat. Hist. 5oc., February 7th, 1865. 
t Dumfries Courier, October 8th, 1861. 
% Minutes of D. and Q. Nat. Hist. Soc, February 7th, 1871. 
